Product LiabilityGeneric-drug makers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court in three petitions to review a Pennsylvania appellate court ruling that the product liability ... Buckyballs litigation unfolded can find some aspects of the proceeding that may apply to it. Before a ...12/21/2014 - 11:00 am | View Link

Safety Group Sues Buckyballs Founder In Product Recall Casethe CPSC sued the company that makes Buckyballs, and advised retailers to stop selling them. A few months later, Zucker decided to close down his business. The CPSC then took the rare step of suing Craig Zucker, the founder, for the full cost of a recall ...01/10/2014 - 4:55 am | View Link

Opportunity exists until February 4 to comment on CPSC’s effort to toughen "voluntary" product recall processCPSC can seek civil penalties from companies that fail to voluntarily recall and, perhaps more importantly, can publicly declare a product dangerous on its own, as it recently did with the Buckyballs magnetic toys. But companies also are more willing to ...01/8/2014 - 11:00 am | View Link

Federal regulators suing Buckyballs founder in rare product-recall caseZucker’s case is rare, not only because the lawsuit names him personally but also because businesses typically cooperate with recall efforts. Before the Buckyballs lawsuit ... “That type of situation is very dangerous for the public,” she said.01/6/2014 - 7:00 pm | View Link

Where to Check for Product Recalls(It's currently available only for the Android, although other companies have launched recall apps, which pull from government data and are available for iOS.) [See: The Most Dangerous Products ... on serious hazards, like Buckyballs, which are high ...11/14/2013 - 5:15 am | View Link

Buckyballs and Buckycubes Refunds Now Available Through ...Buckyballs and Buckycubes Refunds Now Available Through BuckyballsRecall.com; Recall To Refund Will Last Until Jan. 201503/1/2015 - 12:24 am | View Website

Neodymium magnet toysNeodymium magnets, usually small spheres, have been manufactured as educational toys, stress relief products, and an artistic medium. As a result of an estimated ...02/28/2015 - 9:25 pm | View Website

Pivotal has just hired engineer Benjamin Black — the regular Amazon employee who co-wrote the paper that would become cloud titan Amazon Web Services all the way back in 2003. Black most recently worked at Microsoft, where he helped build Office 365, its answer to Google Apps, and prior to that founded a startup called Boundary, which monitored computer networks.

The company that pioneered 3-D printed firearms wants to pay $15,000 for a carbon fiber 3-D printer so it can make guns.
In an e-mail to supporters sent Tuesday morning, Cody Wilson, the founder of Defense Distributed, said that he will pay the sum to anyone who can get him the printer. MarkForged, the company behind the Mark One carbon fiber printer, says on its website that its printed parts “are up to 20 times stiffer and 5 times stronger than similar parts 3-D printed using ABS plastic.” The product normally retails for $5,500.
The firm's offer comes a week after it lambasted FedEx and UPS for refusing to ship its computer numerical controlled mill.
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Former McDonald's CEO Don Thompson abruptly retired from the brand in January amid accusations that his strategy was hurting US business. But McDonald's will pay Thompson $3 million for "consulting services," according to a report by CNBC. His replacement, Steve Easterbrook, will earn a salary of $1.1 million. Thompson retired on March 1 after 25 years with the fast-food chain.